They are finalists in two categories; Acoustic/Folk for their song 'Practise' and in the Children's Category for 'The Hopping Mouse'.

The trio's members Ashley Perrow, Ryan Gittoes, and Jason McGregor, say they are humbled by the recognition.

If they win, it will be the first time in the contest's 31-year history that anyone has won two categories in the same year.

Jason and Ryan popped into the ABC Gold Coast studios for a chat with Mornings program presenter, Nicole Dyer.

They told Nicole writing songs for the band is as an "all-in effort".

"There's no formula for writing songs, the three of us really come together and work really well," Ryan says.

"I guess if you break it down into kind of roles, I kind of spew out lyrics, free style stuff, I wouldn't say I'm the typical writer, I just let it come out.

"Ashley will kind of edit it, put it into past tense or present tense, which he's pretty passionate about, and then Jason is the musical side of it, that's his thing."

Jason adds "Lyrically I don't flow so well but musically I get a lot of ideas for things and that's just where I flow. And Ryan has his place where he flows and Ash has his place where he flows, and by ourselves we're nothing compared to what we are when we're together, and it just works."

A huge priority for the band is to play live as often as possible, and to an assortment of crowds.

"I think connecting with people is the point, that's the point of being given the gift to be able to play or sing," Ryan says.

"I mean sure you can get some enjoyment out of staying at home and playing, and for people who do that that's great, but I think all of us feel that we have a responsibility to be people who connect with an audience and hopefully be a good part of their day when there's so much negativity that you could be focusing on."

The Lamplights also write, record, and perform music across a variety of genres.

A perfect example of this is their song nominated for an award, 'The Hopping Mouse'.

"Anybody who has come and seen us at the markets probably knows about it, it's a children's juggernaut song, we've even got our hopping mouse that turns up to our gigs," says Jason.

Ryan adds that the band's music "has never been about a demographic, it's never been about a target audience, we just play music."

"And we've all got children so we got the hopping mouse to come out when we were playing at markets where there were kids around, and it just grew from there."